Map of life expectancy at birth from Global Education Project.

Saturday, December 02, 2023

Florida GOP Chair Christian Ziegler, husband of Moms For Liberty cofounder, accused of sexual battery by alleged menage a trois lover

Please folks, I am totally in agreement that Hamas is an unacceptable threat and that the organization must be neutralized. That does not mean that the Israeli military has the right to indiscriminately massacre civilians. Evidently some of you support genocide, as long as the right people are being exterminated.

 

Yes, yes, at this point it's only an allegation, it has not been substantiated. But the headline is irresistible, and we know this happens all the time, from Roy Cohn to Larry Craig to Ted Haggard. The harder these people thump their Bibles and persecute homosexuals, the better the odds that they are exactly what they condemn. Actually that's a feature generally of American conservatives nowadays -- every accusation is a confession. This is quite amusing:

 

Bridget Ziegler has become a star within the MAGA movement who was personally endorsed for her school board seat by Florida Governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, who also appointed her in March to the state board that oversees the special district previously overseen by Disney World prior to DeSantis’s politically motivated feud with the entertainment company. 

She is perhaps best known as the cofounder of the right-wing group Moms for Liberty and for  helping lay the groundwork for DeSantis’ Florida Parental Rights In Education Act (known as the “Don’t Say Gay” law). Ziegler has been a leading anti-trans activist and “critical race theory” opponent who has said her aim is to bring “religious values” into schools. 

“Bridget Ziegler, we should have her in every county in Florida,” DeSantis said in one speech. “We have to do a better job in these school board races.” 

She is currently a salaried vice president at the conservative Leadership Institute, which recently opened an office in Sarasota. At the Institute she oversees a school board training program that she said “teaches trains moms and dads how to run for school board, win, and then govern!”

 



1 comment:

Don Quixote said...

Excellent.